IBM Watson Logo from IBM Well, Watson beat (NPR) human its human competitors on Jeopardy, but I think the challenge Ken Jennings gave to IBM today sums up the one-trick pony aspect of Watson: Let put it on Dancing with the Stars to see what it can really do. Watson could not see nor hear, and it could not write, let alone dance. Watson was trained, in this instance, … [Read more...] about Watson and Jeopardy and Why I’m Only Marginally Impressed
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Where Next for Nokia and Microsoft?–Be the Best Windows Phone Partner or Be Irrelevant
So Nokia has decided to partner with Microsoft. The details may have changed, but my strategic advice to them remains the same. They need to analyze their strengths against the competitors and combine those with the strengths of the Microsoft platform in order to out innovate Apple and Google. They will not survive if they don't create the ultimate Windows phone. HTC and others … [Read more...] about Where Next for Nokia and Microsoft?–Be the Best Windows Phone Partner or Be Irrelevant
Strategy: What Nokia Needs to Do To Survive
Cover photo by Zaidan Falaah on Pexels.com Stephen Elop's leaked Nokia strategy memo (full text here at the WSJ TechEurope blog) has caused a bit of a stir. At the center of the memo is uncertainty. The message he gives is that people need to embrace uncertainty like the man in his allegorical burning platform, jump into icy waters and be transformed. The emotion of the … [Read more...] about Strategy: What Nokia Needs to Do To Survive
Save the Desktop! Why the Computer Industry Needs to Save the Desktop Computer
Everything is mobile. That is the mantra we all face. Every angel, every VC, every IT manager, wants to know the mobile angle. Information Week's Alexander Wolfe, like many before, has declared the desktop dead. We need to save the desktop computer. Fresh off a briefing about Intel's experimental Cloud on a Chip, I think we are being premature about the death of the desktop. … [Read more...] about Save the Desktop! Why the Computer Industry Needs to Save the Desktop Computer
What We Won’t Learn from IBM’s Watson Playing Jeopardy!
The game show Jeopardy! will host an unusual array of contestants on Februrary 14-16, 2011. Two of the shows superstars, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, will be pitted against Watson, an artificial intelligence (AI) created by IBM engineers. Watson will not teach the world anything new about a generalized artificial intelligence. In the moment, as Watson answers questions, it … [Read more...] about What We Won’t Learn from IBM’s Watson Playing Jeopardy!
